Video: Forever Leather Bashes Hillary, Spitzer in Infomercial

This priceless excerpt from a low-budget infomercial for a leather store in New Hartford, NY stars an angry spokesman in an ill-fitting tuxedo going way off-topic in a seemingly improvised rant about how the economic tailspin was caused by Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer's respective obsessions with the White House and hookers. None of it has anything to do with leather... or does it? A sample:

Everybody's crying about the economy... "Oh, my God things are so bad." Well, you know if—not for nothing; this is just a pet peeve—if Hillary Clinton didn't spend a whole year running for President instead of doing something for the state of New York, maybe we would be a little better. If Spitzer wasn't out there popping chicks like Bon Bons, maybe we'd be a little better... I'm not gonna badmouth, but I'm gonna badmouth.

And it gets much worse, which is to say better, from there. Particularly awkward are the three blandly-dressed young ladies inexplicably positioned in the background. If they're meant to be the back-up singers, this excerpt frustratingly concludes before the big "Hatin' Hillary" soul number. [Via Daily Dish.]

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By John Del Signore in News on February 3, 2009 5:16 PM

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Clarice City

"I hope it comes off real quick."

If your sperm were (frozen for its obviously amazing potency) the last to save the human race, I would gladly and responsibly, let it thaw to room temperature.

Clarice City

A WOMAN running for president of the United States?!!!!

The two ways women actually contribute something:

1. modeling leather goods

2. making more "dependants"

robingee

For-EVAH Lea-THUH

Clarice City

I'm digging da leadah blazah on the guy with the mic.

ganghiscon

I'm not gonna badmouth, but I'm gonna badmouth.

cocodynamite

oh geesh...crazy Charlie from Forever Leather...I moved away from upstate NY to get away from him and all the other hillbilly crazies I grew up with.

Think2wice

I wish Upstate would use this rage to finally secede like they always say they would.

Spirit of 76

Upstate never threatened to secede. It was always NYC doing all the threatening.

Seeing as how the Utica-area economy has been in the dumps for ages, this guy is probably just lashing out in a last ditch attempt to keep his business afloat. In this economy, not many people are spending money on expensive leather coats.

Think2wice

"Upstate never threatened to secede."

I recall former State Senator and U.S. Congressman Randy Kuhl from upstate, advocating a split from NYC and perhaps its suburban counties during his time in the State Senate.

Lilitu

Oh god, the crazy Forever Leather dude... His commercials were a source of endless mirth when I was at college upstate. I think he's gone even crazier since I graduated.

groovy

looks like someones got a secret crush!

TooTallJeff

"Poppin's chicks like bonbons!" The background music is priceless.

fakenewyorker

that upstate accent is music to my ears.

ecahnamy, jahbs, hyahppy, spahnser

almost as sweet as a western pa accent.

Future Taliban

I like this novel idea! Take a seemingly regular TV commercial and turn it into a political rant! I hope the next Burger King ad to come out focuses on the Bush administrations War & Economic crimes.